By Ana Martinez-Ortiz What does gentrification really mean? This was the first question posed to a group of panelists during the discussion, The Truth About Gentrification, on Wednesday, Oct. 23. A quick Google search defines gentrification as the following, “the process of renovating and improving a house or district so that it conforms to middle-class […]
Unemployment Insurance: A Bridge Over
Legislatively Speaking By Senator Lena C. Taylor In 2018, nearly 22 million workers were laid off jobs, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Roughly, two million people collected unemployment last year. Now imagine if those people were required to take a drug test to be eligible to receive unemployment benefits. Can’t quite wrap […]
Black America Is Not A Monolith
By LaKeshia Myers This past week, I had the opportunity to watch the television show Black-ish on ABC. The episode dealt with Anthony Anderson’s character, Andre Johnson, being invited to join a premiere social organization and his mixed feelings about being viewed as bourgeois (or “bougie” as it is commonly referred). Initially Anderson dismisses the […]
Bird Protection Fund Announces Plans to Support Wisconsin Birds in 2020
With declining bird populations across the U.S. and Canada, the Bird Protection Fund takes action on Wisconsin bird conservation The flutelike song of a wood thrush at dawn, a glimpse of the striking black and orange Baltimore oriole darting through the treetops, the haunting call of a whip-poor-will on a warm summer night . . […]
Advancing the Community with the M3 Education Partnership
By Mark Mone Chancellor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee It’s important to have partners in life, whether personal, at work, in sports or the arts. A significant partnership involving the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee that’s dedicated to improving our community’s future through education is earning national recognition and showing promising results. These hopeful signs, along with the start […]
AARP Talks the Rising Cost of Prescription Medication
By Ana Martinez-Ortiz Nancy Koch knows physical pain. She has a chronic auto immune disease, that won’t get better and is most likely only going to get worse. To help keep her body functioning, Koch takes medication, the catch is that it costs $4,000 a month. Koch is not alone, when it comes to the […]
Mourning A Political Giant: An Ode to Congressman Elijah Cummings
By LaKeshia Myers I remember it like it was yesterday, my first full committee hearing with the Oversight & Government Reform Committee. I was nervous, because I had to help set up the hearing room and make sure that all of the Congressional members nameplates were in the correct order when they arrived. As I […]
What I Learn When I have Lunch at Cook County Jail
By Jesse Jackson On my birthday this year, I continued my tradition of going to the Cook County Jail to have lunch with some of the 5,552 people who are inmates there. These visits remind me of the humanity of those who are in trouble — and of the inhumanity, even idiocy, of our criminal […]
Gallery Night In Milwaukee
A gallery night will be held at King Drive Commons Gallery and Studio of African Diaspora Culture on Friday, Oct. 25, 2019, from 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. and on Saturday Oct. 26, 2019 from noon to 2 p.m., located at 2767 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive. The community is invited to join us […]
The Tragedy of Our Common Waters
The year, 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the Cuyahoga River Fire, a landmark in the timeline of environmental regulation in the United States and the ignition of the Clean Water Act. On Sept. 12th, 2019 the federal administration and Environmental Protection Agency repealed the Clean Water Rule, removing protections for streams and wetlands across […]
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